Christopher K Githiora
Biographic Data
| ID | 216309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher K Githiora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher K |
| FAMILY NAME | Githiora |
| SIGNATURE | GITHIORA C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Recreating discourse and performance in Kenyan urban space throughMũgithi, Hip Hop andGĩcandĩ
This paper examines the one-man guitar Mũgithi music dance and performance popular in urban Kenyan urban space together with localized Kenyan Hip Hop. The music genres are seen as cultural practices that perform global socio-cultural discourses, and which can also be read for the ways in which they both indicate and formulate contexts. A close examination of the two popular genres shows how they continue to borrow from a variety of cultures and p…
Recreating discourse and performance in Kenyan urban space throughMũgithi, Hip Hop andGĩcandĩ
This paper examines the one-man guitar Mũgithi music dance and performance popular in urban Kenyan urban space together with localized Kenyan Hip Hop. The music genres are seen as cultural practices that perform global socio-cultural discourses, and which can also be read for the ways in which they both indicate and formulate contexts. A close examination of the two popular genres shows how they continue to borrow from a variety of cultures and p…
Recreating discourse and performance in Kenyan urban space throughMũgithi, Hip Hop andGĩcandĩ
This paper examines the one-man guitar Mũgithi music dance and performance popular in urban Kenyan urban space together with localized Kenyan Hip Hop. The music genres are seen as cultural practices that perform global socio-cultural discourses, and which can also be read for the ways in which they both indicate and formulate contexts. A close examination of the two popular genres shows how they continue to borrow from a variety of cultures and p…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Dialogic (1 works) · History (1 works) · Kenya (1 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 works) · Linguistics (1 works) · Literature (1 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (1 works) · Music History and Culture (1 works)